- Javier Solana
JAVIER SOLANA President of Madariaga European Foundation Dr. Javier Solana was born in Madrid on 14 July, 1942. He is married to Concepción Giménez and has two children. He has a Doctorate in Physics, and was a Fullbright scholar at several American universities. A Professor of Solid-state Physics at Madrid Complutense University, he is the author of over thirty publications in his field. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome.
- Wayne Besen
Wayne Besen is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays. In 2000, he photographed ex-gay activist John Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar. Paulk claimed he was simply there to use the washroom, …
- Jared Fogle
Jared S. Fogle (born December 1, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana), more commonly known as The Subway Guy, is a spokesman employed by Subway Restaurants in its television advertising campaign. He is noted for his significant weight loss, attributed to eating Subway sandwiches (prior to his hiring by Subway).
- John Bercow
John Simon Bercow (born January 19 1963) is a politician and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Buckingham in the United Kingdom with a current majority of 18,129 votes. He has a long-standing interest in Burma and has frequently raised issues of democracy and genocide in the country. In 2006 he was made a Patron of the Tory Reform Group.
- David Wilder
David Wilder is the spokesman for The Committee of The Jewish Community of Hebron. ---- <br />David Wilder was born in New Jersey in the USA in 1954, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BA in History and teacher certification in 1976. He spent in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University. Upon graduation he returned to Israel, participated in a Kibbutz Ulpan and worked as a volunteer in Netivot, near Beer Sheva. He studied in Yeshiva for over 8 years, …
- Charles Tannock
Charles Tannock (born September 25, 1957 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is a British politician, psychiatrist, and Member of the European Parliament for London for the Conservative Party. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999.
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, also spelled Ramazanzadeh, was the former spokesman and secretary of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the presidency of Muhammad Khatami. Ramezanzadeh is an assistant professor in faculty of Law and Political Science of University of Tehran, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front. He was the governor of the Kurdistan Province of Iran from 1997 to 2001.
- Chris Vernon
Colonel Chris Vernon, from the United Kingdom presently serves in the British Army. In 2003, Colonel Vernon gained international attention as the senior spokesman for the British Landforces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Prior to serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Colonel Vernon served in Bosnia in 1995. During his time in Bosnia in 1995, he served as the spokesman for (UNPROFOR) under the command of General Sir Rupert Smith.
- Niger Innis
Niger Innis is an African American conservative Republican consultant, strategist and National Spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Innis graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Political Science in 1990. Born in Harlem, New York, he currently lives in Westchester, New York with his white lover Heath McCasland of Fort Worth, Texas. His father, Roy Innis, has been National Director of CORE since 1968.
- Ted Brocklebank
Ted Brocklebank (born 24 September 1942, St. Andrews) is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP). Brocklebank was previously a journalist and a television producer, having been Head of News and Current Affairs at Grampian Television. He stood for the Fife North East constituency in the 1999 election for the Scottish Parliament, coming second to Liberal Democrat Iain Smith. This was repeated in the 2003 election, although the Conservatives' share of the vote increased.
- Arnaldo Otegi
Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón is the ideological enforcer and spokesman for the Basque nationalist party Batasuna, which was illegalised in 2003. He was a convicted member of ETA before entering politics. He has stated that he agrees with the aims of ETA, but disagrees with the means employed by ETA with regard to these ends, namely violence. On April 27, 2006 he was sentenced to, but has to date not served, 15 months in prison for glorifying terrorism.
- Archie Norman
Archie was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells in May 1997. He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party in June 1997, with special responsibility for the reform and renewal programme. In July 1998 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Conservative Party.
- Douglas Carswell
John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 1971) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Harwich.
- Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal. Emmanuel is a spokesman for the Make Poverty History campaign, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and the Control Arms campaign. Among other places he performed at the Live 8 Concert in Cornwall this summer. He was awarded a 2005 American Gospel Music Award for best international artist.
- Craig Rosebraugh
Craig Rosebraugh is an environmental activist who has been associated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and who has served as a spokesman for both groups' press office. Rosebraugh owned and operated a vegan bakery in Portland, Oregon, to which ELF and ALF members would anonymously send claims for direct action events. Upon receiving such a claim, Rosebraugh would judge its authenticity, then issue a press release on his website, …
- Ayesha Jalal
Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia. She is the daughter of Hamid Jalal, a nephew of the famous Urdu fiction writer Manto and a civil servant. Ms. Jalal came to New York at the age of 16.
- Carolyn Murphy
Carolyn Murphy (born on August 11, 1975), is an American supermodel. Murphy was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and grew up throughout Northwest Florida, spending most of her childhood in a trailer park in Panama City, Florida. At the age of 16, she was spotted by Mary Lou Nash, owner and operator of Mary Lou's Models, a modeling agency. Nash saw Murphy's potential and soon she was modeling in local ads and magazines throughout Florida and Alabama.
- Alex Johnstone
Alex Johnstone (born 31 July 1961, Kincardineshire) is a Scottish Conservative & Unionist politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland Region since 1999. He fought the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency in the 2005 General Election, finishing second. Johnstone was educated at Mackie Academy in Stonehaven before working as a dairy and arable farmer.
- Robert Sturdy
Robert Sturdy (born 22 June 1944 in Wetherby, West Yorkshire) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region for the Conservative Party. He has held the seat since 1999. Before then, he was the MEP for Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, from 1994 to 1999. Before being elected he was a farmer and is a former county chair of the Young Farmers.
- Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil
Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil (born circa 1971) was the last Foreign Minister in the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Prior to this he served as spokesman and secretary to Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban. After the Northern Alliance accompanied by U.S. and British forces ousted the regime, Mutawakil surrendered in Kandahar to government troops.
- Jaipal Reddy
Sudini Jaipal Reddy (born 16 January 1942) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Miryalguda constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is currently the cabinet minister for Urban Development. He has an M.A. from the Osmania University, Hyderabad. He is disabled and uses crutches. Between 1969 and 1984 he was an MLA of Andhra Pradesh for four terms.
- Willie Rennie
Willie Rennie (born September 27, 1967) is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, winning the by-election held on February 9 2006. Rennie was born in Fife and grew up in Strathmiglo. While a student at the University of Paisley, Rennie ran the Scottish Young Liberal Democrats and after graduation went on to work for the party in Cornwall. He was Chief Executive of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 1997 to 2001.
- Orlando Jones
Orlando Jones (born April 10, 1968) is an American comedian and film and television actor. He is notable for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series "MADtv" and for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999 to 2002.
- John Leech
John Leech (born 11 April 1971) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington. He is a member of the Transport Select Committee and was appointed a Shadow Transport Spokesperson in 2006.
- Eleanor Laing
Eleanor Fulton Laing, née Pritchard, (born 1 February 1958, Paisley) is a British politician. She is Conservative Member of Parliament for Epping Forest, and was first elected in 1997. Currently she serves as Shadow Minister for Women. Laing contested Paisley North in the 1987 general election. When Laing was first elected to the Epping Forest seat in 1997, the seat had been made a marginal by the Labour landslide.
- Michael Vachon
Michael Vachon is director of communications at Soros Fund Management (SFM). Mr. Vachon serves as spokesperson for the Fund and for Mr. Soros personally. He advises Mr. Soros and other executive on media relations and external affairs and acts as Mr. Soros's chief-of-staff for special projects, including overseeing Mr. Soros's political contributions.
- Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. Washington was born into slavery to a white father and a black slave mother on a rural farm in south-central Virginia; the slaves were freed in 1865 by the thirteenth amendment. He attended Hampton University and Wayland Seminary.
- Samantha Brown
Samantha Elizabeth Brown is a TV host of several travel programs on the Travel Channel, including "Girl Meets Hawaii", "Great Hotels", and "Passport to Europe". She also hosted "Great Vacation Homes" on the CTV Travel channel (also subsequently aired on Travel Channel). Brown's newest project is another in the Travel Channel's "Passport" series, "Passport to Latin America", which premiered on June 6, 2007.
- Peter Tapsell
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (born 1 February 1930, Hove) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for Louth and Horncastle. Tapsell was educated at Tonbridge School and Merton College, Oxford, during which time he was also Librarian of the Oxford Union (a senior office). Tapsell contested the Wednesbury by-election in 1957, losing to the Labour victor John Stonehouse. He first entered Parliament in the 1959 general election, …
- Brian Binley
Brian Arthur Roland Binley (born May 1, 1942) is a British politician, and is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Northampton South. Educated at Finedon Mulso Secondary Modern School, Brian Binley joined the Conservative Party in 1959. He was an organiser with the National Young Conservatives from 1965 to 1968. He has been the chairman of BCC Marketing Services, the company he founded since 1988.
- Geoffrey Cox
(Charles) Geoffrey Cox, QC (born April 30, 1960) is a British Conservative politician and barrister. He is the Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon. Geoffrey Cox was educated at King's College, Taunton and Downing College, Cambridge. In 1982 he became a barrister, and in 1992 founded Thomas More Chambers. During part of this time he was the standing counsel to the government of Mauritius. He took silk in 2003.
- Mark Seif
Mark Seif (born October 4 1967) is an American attorney and poker player from Lake Tahoe, California. Seif started playing poker at the age of 7 in his parents' home game, but did not gain public recognition until finishing 4th in the second ever World Poker Tour (WPT) event in August 2002. In May 2003, Seif had his first money finish in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the $3,000 no limit hold'em event, where he finished in 9th place.
- Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim
Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim is the foreign ministry spokesman for Sudan.
- Toby Chaudhuri
Toby Chaudhuri directs communications at the Campaign for America's Future’s Washington headquarters. He works with progressive organizations, political campaigns and people in public office to develop messages and strategies to communicate with the public and influence public policy. A member of Generation X, Chaudhuri arrived at college disillusioned, doubting politics could make a difference.
- Veronica Webb
Veronica Webb is an American supermodel, actress, writer, and journalist. She is of African-American, German & Iroquois descent. As one of the world’s leading supermodels, Veronica Webb graced the covers of Vogue, Essence and Elle magazines and appeared on the runway for Victoria's Secret and Chanel. Today, Ms. Webb has built on her previous accomplishments and achieved remarkable success as a journalist, essayist, author and actress, …
- Javier Arenas
Javier Arenas Bocanegra (born in Seville, Spain on 28th December 1957). Lawyer. Married, with two children. Vice President of the Commission of Justice and Government in the Andalusian Parliament. Since July 1993, he has been President of the People's Party in Andalusia (Spanish: "Partido Popular", PP). At the present time, he is Spokesman for the Popular group in the Andalusian Parliament and Senator representing the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
- Rosemary Mulligan
Rosemary Mulligan (born July 8, 1941) is an American politician of the Republican Party. Mulligan was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1992. On January 8 2003 Rep. Mulligan was sworn in for her sixth term as state representative. In her 12 years in the Illinois House, she has become a leader on state budget issues (particularly human service appropriations), family issues, health care, and early childhood education.
- Ninu Zammit
Ninu Zammit (born 1952) is a politician from the Republic of Malta. He serves as the Minister for Resources and Infrastructure, and is responsible for the Works Division, Environmental Development and Management, Rehabilitation Projects, Malta Resources Authority (MRA), Building Industry Consultative Council (BICC) and Oil Exploration. Zammit was born in Zurrieq, Malta in 1952. He received bachelors degrees from St Aloysius' College and the University of Malta, …
- Oswald Sigg
Oswald Sigg (born 1944, Zurich) is a Swiss journalist and presently a federal official. In August 2005, he was elected Vice-Chancellor and Spokesman of the government of Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council. Sigg studied sociology and economics in St. Gallen, Paris and Berne. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party.
- Karl Belanger
Karl Bélanger is the Senior press secretary for Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton. He previously was the spokesman for former NDP Leader Alexa McDonough and has worked for the Party since its breakthrough in the 1997 federal election. He is a native of Quebec City, and noted for his fondness for team sports. He was a candidate in the 1993 federal election in the riding of Jonquière, and in the 1996 Federal by-election in Lac-Saint-Jean.